Wake Up! April Art Walk is Hopping

Was it just week I was whining about how this town was dead and there was nothing to blog about? Yes; yes it was. But lo! Here is the sun, and here is Art Walk, and downtown, at least, seems to be coming out of hibernation.

Inside Out: Art by Whatcom County Jail Inmates, is hanging at Jinx Art Space, 306 Flora. The show features drawings and sculpture by more than half a dozen inmates, and accompanying personal statements. Books for Prisoners will be on hand to talk about their programs.

The newWhatcom Museum restaurant, Cheese Meats Beer, is opening at 250 Flora. The museum itself has several exhibits going: From the Melting Pot into the Fire: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel, The Art of Recycling, and Paper Trail Redux: Prints from the Collection.

Karaoke overlord Zach Zinn (Cap Hansen’s, Tubbs) is taking the reins at the Overgrowth Gallery,1206 Cornwall. Current owner Miles Robinson is celebrating the handoff with music by the Daffodils and, of course, Zach’s trademark psychedelic karaoke.

Unknown Board Shop, who recently took over the long-empty storefront at 105 Grand Ave., is hanging a group show called Wood Colored Glasses. But what really got my attention was rumored skate ramp. Inside? Outside? All I know is it’s really nice to see some fresh blood on that block of Grand. Figuratively speaking, of course. Let’s keep our actual blood inside us, skatekids.